По значению этот оборот близок к русским выражениям «предписывалось», «предназначалось», «полагалось», «положено». Примеры: You were meant to keep the children out of trouble / Тебе предписывалось оградить детей от неприятностей. So, at best, the image is meant to float away into abstraction / И, в идеале, картинке полагалось расплыться в абстракцию. Parties are meant to be fun. Вечеринкам полагается быть веселыми. This guide is meant to give you our policies for integrating AdSense for games /...

What does it mean to be human? But who’s asking? Surely, I myself. Ain’t I a human? Or forget me, any person who could ask the question would be a human. So this is an absurd situation where the subject doesn’t know what it means to be? Not exactly. Vagueness of the question comes up because of multiple meanings that may be implied to the word “human”. Understanding that, I strive to find an answer that contains all possible interpretations and connotations. Like physicists are searching for The Theory Of Everything, or like philosophers are trying to answer the question “What is reality?”, I am looking for a set, which determines the term “human”...